A practical exposition of the X. Commandments with a resolution of several momentous questions…A practical exposition of the X. Commandements with a resolution of several momentous questions…

Our Assertion then in reference to this is, that, The duty of setting a-part and sanctifying of a portion of time, as it is limited in the fourth Command, for God's Service as it recurreth, is moral, and the obligation thereunto perpetual, even as in the duties of the other Commands; the obligation to this, being no more dissolved than to those, though there may be difference in the degree of the obligation which they lay on in respect of the matter contained in them; my meaning in a word, is, that a day or one of seven is as necessary to be kept holy unto God now, (upon supposition of his determining the particular day) as it is necessary to hold and keep up the worship prescribed by God; neither without sin can another day be put in the room of it, more than other worship can be substituted in the place of divinely prescribed worship; for the time is set and sixth by the Fourth Command (pointing at a solemn and chief time) as the worship it self is by the second.

Our Assertion then in reference to this is, that, The duty of setting a-part and sanctifying of a portion of time, as it is limitted in the fourth Command, for God's Service as it recurreth, is moral, and the obligation thereunto perpetual, even as in the duties of the other Commands; the obligation to this, being no more dissolved than to those, though there may be difference in the degree of the obligation which they lay on in respect of the matter contained in them; my meaning in a word, is, that a day or one of seven is as necessary to be kept holy unto God now, (upon supposition of his determining the particular day) as it is necessary to hold and keep up the worship prescribed by God; neither without sin can another day be put in the room of it, more than other worship can be substituted in the place of divinely prescribed worship; for the time is set and fixt by the Fourth Command (pointing at a solemne and chief time) as the worship it self is by the second.

For clearing of this, consider, 1. That we mean not here moral-natural, as if without any positive Law such a thing had been binding; no, but moral-positive, that is laid on by a Command ⟨p. 189⟩